Training &amp; ICTs

Pangea is an independent non-profit organisation founded in 1993 to promote the strategic use of communication networks and ICTs for development and social justice. As an APC member organisation, Pangea participates in a number of the association’s areas of work. Currently, the priority issues on which it is actively working are internet rights (the Internet Rights Charter); ICT policies and the information society (WSIS); gender issues and ICTs, through the Espai de Dones (Women’s Space); and training.

Topic areas of expertise:

Access to information,

Cultural & linguistic diversity,

Free software,

Gender & ICTs,

Human rights & ICTs,

ICT for development,

Low-cost technology,

Strategic use of the internet,

Training & ICTs

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“ to contribute to building a self-reliant online community based on non-profit enterprise, cooperation, and mutual aid which can support, maintain, and defend principles of social responsibility, ecology, and economic justice. To these ends, Web Networks provides appropriate and innovative communication technology and resources. Web Networks also seeks to foster healthy and productive work environments in non-profit organizations.”

Topic areas of expertise:

Cultural & linguistic diversity,

Environment & ICTs,

Free software,

ICT for development,

Labour & ICTs,

Low-cost technology,

Strategic use of the internet,

Training & ICTs

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Metamorphosis Foundation is an independent, non-partisan and non-profit foundation based in Skopje, Macedonia. Its main goals are development of democracy and prosperity by promoting knowledge-based economy and information society.
Main activities of the organization include: lobbying and advocacy in order to make the social and legal environment more conducive to ICT development; educational and informative efforts, including basic and advanced training, and rising of public awareness; and providing concrete ICT solutions to social and developmental challenges.

Topic areas of expertise:

Access to information,

Accessibility,

Cultural & linguistic diversity,

Free software,

ICT policy,

Internet governance,

Open access,

Security & privacy,

Strategic use of the internet,

Training & ICTs

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The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), is a nonprofit NGO in the Philippines seeking to democratize information and communication systems and resources for citizens and communities. Since its formation in 1987, FMA has sought to enhance the popularization of development-oriented issues and campaigns through media-related interventions, social communications projects, and cultural work. Since 1997, the Foundation has focused on the area of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to enable disadvantaged communities assert their communication rights towards progressive social transformation. It has since evolved a pro-active research and advocacy agenda in the area of ICT policy and internet governance.

FMA also engages in regional and global governance spaces, and often plays a convening role in various initiatives and engagements in and for Asian civil society. It served as a focal point for Asian CSOs in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) processes, and convenes regional meetings and joint projects in the area of communication rights and access to information/knowledge/culture.

Topic areas of expertise:

Human rights & ICTs,

ICT policy,

Training & ICTs

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Women’sNet works to advance gender equality and justice in South Africa through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by providing training and facilitating content dissemination and creation that supports women, girls, and women’s and gender organisations and networks to take control of their own content and ICT use.

Recognising that ICTs are a gendered tool, Women’sNet seeks to address gender imbalances in the access and meaningful use of ICTs through research and advocacy for gender aware ICT programmes and policies at all levels of society. Women’sNet builds women’s organisational capacity to use technology strategically to find the people, resources, tools and content they need for social action.